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1. Add MS 33733-33791

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Add MS 33733-33791
Title:
Grenville Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
form part of the Grenville Library, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1847 by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville. They were transferred to the custody of the Keeper of MSS. in 1890.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 14th century-19th century
Extent:
60 items

2. Add MS 33752

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Add MS 33752
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Scope & Content:
(Gr. lviii.) " LE PORTRAIT de son altesse royale Madame Henriette, princesse d'Angleterre, dedié à Monsieur frère unique du roy. Par monsieur [Jean Puget] de la Serre, historiographe de France et maître de sa bibliothèque " : a eulogy, in prose and verse, of the personal and intellectual charms ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1661]
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 33755

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Add MS 33755
Title:
Scope & Content:
(Gr. Iii.) " HIE HEBT sich an das fuch des edeln Ritters vn landtfarers Marcho polo " : a transcript from the rare edition in German of the Travels of Marco Polo printed at Nuremberg in 1477, taken from a copy in the Imperial Library at Vienna and certified as exact by B. Kopitar, " Biblioth. Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1817
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 33757

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Add MS 33757
Title:
Scope & Content:
(Gr. xxxix.) " CI COMENCE le liure qui parle des diuersites des pais ... compile fait et ordonne par Mesire Jehan Mandeuille, Cheualier, ne dangleterre de la uille con dit saint Albain ": the French version of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1322-1336. For a partial collation, see the Roxbur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 33781

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Add MS 33781
Title:
Scope & Content:
(Gr. xiii.) ÆSOPIC FABLES, known as " Ysopet-Avionnet eighty-three fables in two parts, the first containing fifty-nine fables of the " Anonymus Neveleti " with five from other sources, the second containing eighteen fables of Avianus with one other by an unknown mediæval writer. In Latin elegia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 33788

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Add MS 33788
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Scope & Content:
(Gr. ii.) ',LE DODECHERON (sc. Dodechedron) de Maistre Jean de Meung, qui est Le Livre des sorts et de la fortune des nombres." In verse. Printed at Paris in 1556,and subsequently; and at London, " Englished by Sir W. B., Knight," in 1618. Paper, with three leaves (ff. 15-17) of vellum; ff. 90. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item